{"id":1762,"date":"2026-05-31T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev1.cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/2026\/05\/un-lien-entre-saint-colomban-et-la-guerre-de-secession-americaine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:02:29","slug":"un-lien-entre-saint-colomban-et-la-guerre-de-secession-americaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/2026\/05\/un-lien-entre-saint-colomban-et-la-guerre-de-secession-americaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Un lien entre Saint-Colomban et la guerre de S\u00e9cession am\u00e9ricaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Par Kelley O’Rourke<\/p>\n

Richard Ryan de Saint-Colomban, au Bas-Canada, repr\u00e9sente l\u2019un des nombreux liens oubli\u00e9s entre le Qu\u00e9bec et la guerre de S\u00e9cession am\u00e9ricaine. N\u00e9 le 4 mars 1838 de parents immigrants irlandais, John Ryan et Johanna Bourke (Burke), originaires du comt\u00e9 de Tipperary, Richard grandit au sein de la premi\u00e8re communaut\u00e9 agricole catholique irlandaise \u00e9tablie \u00e0 Saint-Colomban dans les ann\u00e9es 1820.<\/p>\n

Pendant de nombreuses ann\u00e9es, la m\u00e9moire locale conservait seulement le souvenir que Richard \u00e9tait mort durant la \u00ab guerre am\u00e9ricaine \u00bb. Toutefois, un avis publi\u00e9 dans le Montreal Gazette<\/em> le 7 juillet 1862 apporte un indice historique important :<\/p>\n

\u00ab Killed in battle of Corinth, on the 28th of May, Mr. Richard Ryan, son of John Ryan, Esq., Parish of St. Columban, County of Two Mountains, Canada East. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Cet avis relie Richard Ryan au si\u00e8ge de Corinth, au Mississippi, une importante campagne militaire de la guerre de S\u00e9cession am\u00e9ricaine men\u00e9e du 29 avril au 30 mai 1862. Corinth constituait l\u2019un des centres ferroviaires les plus strat\u00e9giques du Sud, et ce si\u00e8ge d\u2019un mois devint une victoire importante pour l\u2019Union dans le th\u00e9\u00e2tre occidental de la guerre.<\/p>\n

Bien que le r\u00e9giment militaire de Richard Ryan n\u2019ait pas encore \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9, la date et le lieu de son d\u00e9c\u00e8s le placent clairement dans la campagne de Corinth. Il mourut \u00e0 seulement vingt-trois ans, loin de chez lui.<\/p>\n

Aujourd\u2019hui, sa m\u00e9moire survit gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un monument dans le cimeti\u00e8re de Saint-Colomban portant l\u2019inscription :<\/p>\n

\u00ab Though not here in body is here in spirit. \u00bb<\/p>\n

Son histoire rappelle que la guerre de S\u00e9cession a \u00e9galement touch\u00e9 les communaut\u00e9s du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n

Sources d’information<\/span><\/h2>\n

Montreal Gazette<\/em>, 7 juillet 1862, avis de d\u00e9c\u00e8s de Richard Ryan.<\/p>\n

L’Encyclop\u00e9die canadienne – \u00ab\u00a0Guerre civile am\u00e9ricaine\u00a0\u00bb.<\/a><\/p>\n

Find a Grave – M\u00e9morial Richard Ryan, cimeti\u00e8re de Saint-Colomban<\/a>.<\/p>\n

National Park Service – Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Pierre tombale de Richard Ryan (Photo : Kelley O’Rourke)<\/p><\/div>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Par Kelley O’Rourke Richard Ryan de Saint-Colomban, au Bas-Canada, repr\u00e9sente l\u2019un des nombreux liens oubli\u00e9s entre le Qu\u00e9bec et la guerre de S\u00e9cession am\u00e9ricaine. N\u00e9 le 4 mars 1838 de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogie-et-histoires-de-famille"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimpn-rcpmi.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}